SWOT | School focus groups | Community focus groups |
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Strengths | 1. General interest in PA is high and participation in the few available programs is usually good. | 1. General interest in PA is high among children, adolescents and adults. |
2. School infrastructure/facilities. | 2. School facilities. | |
3. Several outside spaces and county and state parks. | ||
Weaknesses | 1. Widespread sedentary lifestyle of children. | 1. Poor condition of existing outside spaces and parks. |
2. Lack of access to proximal PA resources. | 2. Geographical size of McDowell County relative to number of inhabitants. | |
3. Multigenerational families (grandparents and great grandparents raising children). | 3. Long travel time. | |
4. Poor promotion of existing PA opportunities. | ||
4. Lack of appropriate, safe and accessible facilities for PA. | 5. Lack of suitable platforms for communication. | |
5. General narrow view and sheltered perspective of PA possibilities. | 6. Absence of suitable indoor facilities for the winter months. | |
Opportunities | 1. Citizens generally open to PA opportunities, especially around the schools. | 1. People generally open towards new PA opportunities. |
2. Conversion/renovation of existing school facilities. | 2. A web-based platform with coordinated information of PA opportunities. | |
3. Shared use agreements for the use of school PA facilities for students and families. | 3. Several smaller scale PA rather than centralized larger ones. | |
4. Community fitness centers. | 4. Renovation of existing facilities a sensible starting point. | |
5. Need to train local people. | ||
Threats | 1. Poverty. | 1. Poverty. |
2. Locality/distrust of outsiders. | 2. Multigenerational/aging families. | |
3. Multigenerational/aging families. | 3. Prevalent drug use/abuse, especially with prescription drugs. | |
4. Poor condition and rampant vandalism of existing infrastructure/facilities. | 4. High unemployment rate. | |
5. Prevalent drug use/abuse | 5. Geographic isolation. | |
6. Poor road condition. | 6. Poor travel/road conditions. | |
7. Social capital/suitable professionals to step up and run new PA programs. |